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Originally Posted by GR∑∆TChan
Hi
I've been reading this thread and I think that the fact that shad ism still exist in the african american commnunity is absolutely ludicrous.
Growing up I was always picked on for several reasons:
Being a "light skinned" person
Having longer hair than the others in class.
Wearing glasses haha
Speaking white(lol as stupid as that sounds)
Being "Bourgeois" (allegedly)
Being tall and skinny
and the list goes on...
However as I got older and met different people. I realized that issues that exist within the black community are not even a concern in main stream america. When i got to college. I realized that the way that my own people treated me during my child hood was still alive. So coming from a family full of AKA's and Delta's. I ironically made my choice to go another way. I joined a historically Jewish sorority...Obviously this didnt sit well with most of my friends and familly but I wanted to step out of my confort zone. Only to see what white people thought about my race. While doing so I've realized that they don't see complexions.hair textures.or dialects...
They see just BLACK.
I want everyone to realize that ..
Regardless of the way you look,walk or talk you are a different from them....one can try to conform but ..its useless...This issue of complexion doesn't matter to them..it just matters to us unfortunately.
I just wish that we would stop seperating ourselves and come together and represent ourselves more positively especially in neighborhoods that suffer from poverty....
My Grandmother marched back in the 60's ...for everything she believed in......the best part about it was that she was not alone.......The Harlem community was united.....we need to support eachother just the way that the Jews do it.!!!!
We suppress ourselves.
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Blacks aren't the only ones with colorisms and who treat people differently based on shade. Whites often treat blacks differently based on shade, which is a big reason why colorism continues in the black community in the first place. We don't just "suppress" ourselves. This thread is about intraracial prejudice, though, and that's why we're specifically discussing blacks' colorisms.
And what does it mean when they see you as "just BLACK?" Is that good or bad?